She wanted all the mail brought to her. She didn’t want anyone deciding if she should receive the advertising fliers, weekly grocery store bulletins, or enveloped solicitations – she wanted the whole lot so her fingers could walk through a world of merchandise uninhibited by time or place. She’d take her time going through the […] Read more »
The last of the Tri-Town tours should have been the starting point. After all, Rochester was, in the beginning, the only town that existed in what we know today as the Tri-Town area. Marion and Mattapoisett were only villages within its borders. But that’s not all, Wareham was also once part of Rochester. That aside, […] Read more »
How does a museum filled with materials from days gone by stay vital in a world where Internet connections span the globe, information sought is instantly found via a search engine, and historical relics can be viewed in 3-D on a digital screen? That question is just one of many that challenge 21stcentury museum boards. […] Read more »
The second of three walking tours planned for each of the Tri-Towns stepped off from the Mattapoisett Historical Museum (MHM) on June 23 under splendid summer skies. The Healthy Tri-Town Coalition, along with the historical societies in Rochester, Marion, and Mattapoisett, planned the walks as a way to connect people with the history of the […] Read more »
The Williams family of Rochester has done something quite amazing: they have raised over $6,000 for the Buzzards Bay Coalition (BBC) as Team Splash. On June 22 they, along with 276 other supporters of the BBC mission, entered the waters of the outer harbor at New Bedford’s south-end and swam towards Fairhaven emerging at Fort […] Read more »
The striped bass, affectionately called a striper for the dark lines along its side by sportsmen, prefers a water temperature from 55 degrees to 68 degrees. To stay in this range, they migrate both in spring and fall. With the arrival of summer, the spring migration is all but complete in Buzzards Bay, having started […] Read more »
Marion residents are excited about the arrival of the life-sized bronze statute of its beloved beneficiary Elizabeth Taber next year, and artist Erik Durant who was commissioned to create the sculpture is just as excited to share in the creative process as he transforms an idea into the physical form of the woman who literally […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Land Trust (MLT) scored when they applied for and received a Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness grant. The $960,000 grant is one of the largest distributed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. The department’s website notes that, “The Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness grant program (MVP) provides support for cities and […] Read more »
Center School has been standing as a beacon of education and, more recently, as support to seniors as the headquarters for the Mattapoisett Council on Aging. And lest we forget, it also houses the offices of the Recreation Department. Built in 1898 with funding by the well-known local philanthropist Henry Huttleston Rogers, Center School has […] Read more »
On June 15, a day that can only be described as a picture-perfect summer’s day, more then 30 people assembled outside the Sippican Historical Society (SHS) Museum and office to embark on the first of three historic walking tours planned in partnership with the Healthy Tri-Town Coalition. The tour guide was none other than long-time […] Read more »